University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Mr. . Josephine Souk is seen as she works on :i correspondence course in Knglish. The photographic laboratory made more than footlwdl films one of its productions, “The Cleft Palate Story. won international acclaim last year. The year 1900 marked the formal birth of the Wisconsin idea, since in that year professors and legislators laid the foundations for the Extension Division—the vehicle the University has used in carrying its benefieient influences to every home in the state. 'fhe next year the legislature granted $20,000 to establish the Extension Division, and by 1908 it was operating in every corner of the state. The first extension student was Paul II. Nystrom, a Wisconsin farm boy who went on from his corre- RHINELANDER Extension Division

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The Badger Setting Squeezed tightly between the ('ity of Madison and Lake Mendota, the University campus stretched out like a long thin ribbon as it hugged the shoreline on the north from Wisconsin Avenue to Picnic Point, and extended only three blocks south to University Avenue. This relatively small patch of land packed with buildings, students, and a wealth of knowledge attracted students from all parts of the world. In fact, this year’s enrollment included students from all of Wisconsin’s 71 counties, all the other 47 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Guam, and 65 foreign nations. So Badgerland extended much farther than the Madison campus and the nine extension centers throughout the state. In terms of influence it extended throughout the world in the minds and hearts of some 112,000 alumni. From its humble beginnings atop Baseom Hill 107 years ago when Baseom Hall (then called Main Hall) and present-day North Hall were the only buildings, the University has grown to be one of the nation’s largest institutions, offering nearly 1.400 different courses of study each semester in 31 of the 33 fields of human knowledge. More than 3,800 new students registered each year for Extension Division correspondence courses to receive their education by mail. Thus Badgerland was limitless . . . continually improving . . . continually growing. This was Badgerland 1956 ... and in terms of future expectations, really only the beginning.

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ZPZt: AKm,1,,ofMu loMt1 i K,k timeout between cla ,he freshman-sophomore Kxtension: Center at Racine. ' Golden Anniversary spondence courses to become a professor of marketing at Columbia University. Over the years he has been joined by nearly a million Wisconsin citizens who have responded to the idea: If you can't come to the University, the University will come to you. In a typical year the Kxtension Division could report 90,000 correspondence study students, 13,000 special class students, 30.000 institute participants, 2,400 freshman-sophomore extension center students, and 700 communities reached by special services. ‘•Girl’s State planned by the Bureau of Government and the American Legion auxiliary, brought hundreds of high school students to the campus every year, as did the music clinics coordinated by the Kxtension Music department.